Palestinian parents fear for children's lives at school as settler attacks grow

"I came because it makes the children feel their parents are with them, that they are safe, it gives them a kind of security," said Haroon Bishara, whose boys are in the first and second grades."We fear for our children more this year," he told me. "We know the situation is not safe at the school."But he said that fear was mixed with a determination not to let the threat from settler attacks force them out.Lined up in the playground for their first assembly, pupils heard the instructions repeated by teachers again and again throughout the day: if soldiers or settlers approach the school, don't shout, don't go near them, don't react.Just over an hour after classes began, settlers were spotted through the school windows: two men, driving sheep through Palestinian fields a couple of hundred metres from the school, as Israeli soldiers stood close by.Minutes later, another settler with a flock of sheep appeared."They have got closer to the village since April," said Abu Naem. They used to keep their sheep behind this [hill], but now the soldiers bring the settlers up to the village."We asked the Israeli army for its response to all the allegations in this report, but they were unable to...